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24751 [lbo-talk] Bello given a prize -- rank: 1000

Dr. Walden Bello receives the Right Livelihood Award The Right Livelihood Award, also known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize," was announced in Stockholm yesterday, 2nd October 2003. Dr.Walden Bello (Executive Diretor of Focus on the Global South) was recognised for "playing a crucial and complementary role in developing the theoretical and practical bases for a world order that benefits all people." See <http://www.rightlivelihood.se/latest03.htm>http://www.rightlivelih ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 4 14:50:06 PDT 2003

24752 [lbo-talk] RE: tech jobs abound - in India -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >I agree with you. But consider that what's happening right now, >being that it's initiated and implemented by the ruling class will >result in : a yuppie/techie/arrogant class created in India; >immiseration here, with the affected population being just as likely >to turn into protectionist fascists as into socialists. Immiseration? In the U.S.? Isn't that a bit strong? It's neither empirically accuarate or politically useful. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 3 10:46:28 PDT 2003

24753 [lbo-talk] tech jobs abound - in India -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Wojtek posted: > >Cool. The arrogant US techies meeting their just >desert. > >******* > > >Dios Mio! Really - your misanthropy is showing again Woj. Sure there were/are some arrogant pricks in tech - the kinds of people that Paulina Borsook wrote about in Cyberselfish - but there were/are also lots of mere workers trying to do a job and reproduce their labor power. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 2 16:03:14 PDT 2003

24754 [lbo-talk] end of the US-Asia affair? -- rank: 1000

[This is the summary of today's Merrill Lynch global strategy report.] The Global Strategist If A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words In the light of the recent G7 statement on exchange rates, we would make two observations. First, if this G7 statement on exchange rates proves to be a major watershed event for the dollar, it may also prove to be a major watershed event for the symbiotic relationship between Asia and America. In our view a post-bubble US recession has been largely avoided by the wi ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 2 12:52:33 PDT 2003

24755 [lbo-talk] the Bush family -- rank: 1000

Wotta crew. From the NY Post's Page Six today: >AXED BY E-MAIL > >SHARON Bush, the chatty ex-sister-in-law of President Bush, has >spilled her guts again, this time to Gotham magazine. Sharon - who >was married to Neil Bush for 22 years and bore him three children, >including model Lauren Bush - tells how Neil dumped her via an >e-mail stating, "I don't love you." "I was numb," says Sharon, 51. >"There was no indication that anything was wrong.&qu ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 2 12:45:01 PDT 2003

24756 [lbo-talk] tech jobs abound - in India -- rank: 1000

Reuters - Wed October 01, 2003 10:24 PM ET Jobs Abound in India's Booming Tech Sector By Anshuman Daga BANGALORE, India (Reuters) - Software engineer Prakash just quit his job in Bangalore, but he's not worried. "The market is booming. I can pick and choose a firm of my choice," said the 28-year-old engineer, who has been in the industry for about five years. Companies are slashing payrolls in the United States and Europe to cut costs, moving software work offshore and creating thousan ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 2 12:36:39 PDT 2003

24757 [lbo-talk] Other social indicators for economic collapse -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I'm curious about what the current research says about social >indicators relating to economic downturns. We've all seen the stats >on layoffs and unemployment, but what kind of other social and >economic measures are there that indicate how people are reacting to >bad economic times? How about the news about increases in drug use? >Gang activity? Coffee sales at Starbucks? I think crime rates respond only slowly to economic turns. But there are lots of things th ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 2 12:21:30 PDT 2003

24758 [lbo-talk] RE: war profiteering -- rank: 1000

Brian Siano wrote: >> Tony Soprano's America: The Criminal Side of the American Dream >>by David R. Simon (Hardcover - September 2002) > >Some people'll write anything for tenure. Damn literary/cultural critics. It's just a TV show, right? Doesn't mean a damn thing that millions watch it, talk about it, mull over Dr Melfi with their shrinks, aspire to Tony-ness. Nah, just a TV show. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 2 12:17:53 PDT 2003

24759 [lbo-talk] Scott McLemee on Cotzee -- rank: 1000

[written, he says, in a blazing hurry at 7 AM] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - October 2, 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to J.M. Coetzee of South Africa By SCOTT MCLEMEE The 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to John Maxwell Coetzee, a white South African novelist and essayist whose work chronicles the inner history of his country's transformation from racial dictatorship to a post-apartheid society. While acknowledging Mr. Coetzee's literary craft, the Royal Swedis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 2 09:40:48 PDT 2003

24760 [lbo-talk] 'China's Wall Street' to be completed by 2008 -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com quoted People's Daily: >Addressing an international symposium on development of the Beijing >Financial Street, Liu said the street would embrace "four themes" -- >globalization, ecology catering to human living, vigor, and financial >culture. Financial culture? What's that? Discounting the funky cash flow? Arbitrage for string quartet? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 1 18:25:47 PDT 2003

24761 [lbo-talk] Seattle redux -- rank: 1000

DoreneFC at aol.com wrote: >And what is the total population of Manhattan: how many million live >there and how many million more commute in? The city of Seattle has >a population of about 700,000 so what are we comparing? That's not really the point - it's not about routine policing, it's about how many bodies the cops have to deploy against demonstrators. The NYPD has a 33/1 advantage. The pop ratio is about 10/1. NYC is very heavily policed - LA has 8,000 cops for a city someething l ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 1 18:03:45 PDT 2003

24762 [lbo-talk] Seattle redux -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >I wouldn't argue that police have to have massive forces to control >a crowd, but a massive force of police can put a significant damper >on crowd behavior, i.e. as the NYPD has shown in NYC. There are something like 40,000 cops in NYC. As I recall, Seattle had about 1,200. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 1 17:08:15 PDT 2003

24763 [lbo-talk] left curiosities -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >For reasons best known to themselves and the >Solidarity NC, they, or some ofthem, constituted the >Syracuse U. chapter of Soli for a while, so I have >actually beem comrades of a sort with Rob Cymbyla -- a >definitely out-of-body experience. jks Didn't they attack you in the first ish of AO? Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 1 16:29:17 PDT 2003

24764 [lbo-talk] left curiosities -- rank: 1000

Wow, the oddballs of Alternative Orange have resurfaced! This one's for connoisseurs of truly marginal left formations only: At 4:57 PM -0400 10/1/03, Robert Cymbala wrote: >For your information, an archive of _The Alternative Orange_ includes >Volume 5, Number 2, as of this week. The number has copies of email >messages to marxism-thaxis. > >Link: >http://www.etext.org/Politics/AlternativeOrange/5/index.html Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 1 14:17:31 PDT 2003

24765 [lbo-talk] those wacky impressions -- rank: 1000

<http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=3408> Baghdad Urban Legends How come so many people think weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq, or that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the September 11 attacks? Are the news media to blame? By Lori Robertson Lori Robertson is AJR's managing editor. Armed with at least the opportunity to have learned much about the war in Iraq--what with the months-long build-up, the up-close-and-embedded coverage, the pages upon pages of newsprin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 1 12:39:09 PDT 2003